Kay v Archbold [2008] NSWSC 254

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Kay v Archbold [2008] NSWSC 254

HEARING DATE(S) : 03/03/08, 04/03/08

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 March 2008

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : White J

DECISION : Counsel for the plaintiff to bring in short minutes of order in accordance with reasons.

CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION – family provision and maintenance – whether testatrix made adequate provision for applicant – bulk of estate left to son in will – significant gifts to son inter vivos – applicant an adult daughter with multiple sclerosis – competing claim of adult son with Hepatitis C. - SUCCESSION – family provision and maintenance – practice, procedure and orders – cost-capping application – costs increased by defendant executor's failure to place all relevant evidence before the court – application not determined prior to the hearing.

Family Provision Act 1982 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Singer v Berghouse (1994) 181 CLR 201 Moore v Moore [2004] NSWSC 587 Jvancich v Kennedy (No 2) [2004] NSWCA 397 Sherbourne Estate (No 2); Vanvalen v Neaves [2005] NSWSC 1003; (2005) 65 NSWLR 268 Dijkhuijs v Barclay (1988) 13 NSWLR 639 In the Estate of Guthrie (1983) 32 SASR 86 CASES CITED : Horne v Horne [2001] NSWSC 50 Dalton v Paull (No. 2) [2007] NSWSC 803 Dinnen v Terrill [2007] NSWSC 1405 Palmer v Dolman [2005] NSWCA 361 Wheatley v Wheatley [2006] NSWCA 262 Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith v Scales (1962) 107 CLR 9 Walker v Walker (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Young J, 17 May 1996, unreported)